NECROLYTES. — NECTARINIA. 
685 
NECROLYTES pileatus Gloger, Handb. Natg. = Neophron pileatus Gray. 
NECROSYRTES pileatus Gray, Handl. Birds I 4. = Neophron pileatus Gray. 
jVECRORIVIS palustris Milne Edwards, Rech. Ois. foss. II. Tb. 178. Fig. 
6 — 14. Genus Musophag. spec. foss. — Gallia. 
XECTARI1VIA (Nectarinidae. — nectar florum haurientes). — Illiger, Prodr. 
System. 1811. 210. — Jardine, Nectariniadae or Sun Birds (Edinburgh 1843). 
— Gray, Genera Birds I. 97. 
Synon.: Curruca Möhr. — Anthodiaeta, Hedydipna, Panaeola Cab. — Adelinus, 
Mangusia Bonap. — Elaeocerthia, Leucochloridia, Aidemonia, Angladiana ( Angaladiana), 
Cosmeteira Reichb. — Tephrolaema Heine. 
Bill slender, curved, very fine and acute at the tip, dilated at the base, edges 
of the maxilla folding over the mandible, mandible narrow in depth at the base, 
edges of both minutely and regularly denticulated; tongue lengthened, slender, with 
a shortly bifid fringed apex, the edges for the whole length turned over inwards 
forming a double tube; wings with the third quill longest, first short, nearly 
spurious; tail even, lengthened and much graduated, or with the two centre feathers 
only elongated; tarsi and feet fully developed, the hallux lengthened and with its 
claw proportionally strong. — 60 Specc. 
abyssinica Ehrenberg, Symb. phys. Aves Tb. 4. == Cinnyris habessinica Cab. 
acik Antinori, Catal. Coll. Afr. 13. == Nectarinia senegalensis Cuv. 
Adelberti Gray, Genera Birds I. 97. — Jardine, Illustr. Ornith. n. ser. Tb. 49. 
[Senegal 
Cinnyris eboensis Thompson, Mscr. 
Cinnyris Adelberti Gervais, Mag. Zool. 1833. Ois. Tb. 19. 
Nectarinia eboënsis Jardine, Nectarin. 244. 
Chalcomitra Adelberti Reichenbach, Handb. Ornith. I. 279. Tf. 568. Fig. 
3876. 77. 
aenea Gray, Genera Birds I. 98. = Arachnothera lotenia. 
affinis Gray, Genera Birds I. 98. — Rüppell, syst. Uebers. NO Afr. 28. — 
v. Heuglin, Ornith. NO Afr. I. 232. [Abyssinia. 
Cinnyris af finis Rüppell, neue Wirbeith. Abyss. 87. Tf. 31. Fig. 1. 
Cyanomitra affinis Reichenbach, Handb. Ornith. I. 292. Tf. 573. Fig. 3907. 
affinis Jardine, Nectarin. 216. Tb. 20. = Arachnothera jugularis. 
afra Jardine, Nectarin. 169. Tb. 2. — Cinnyris afr a Cab. 
albiventris Strickland, Contrib. Ornith. 1852. 42. Tb. 86. — v. Heuglin, 
Ornith. NOAfr. I. 234. [Somali. 
Cinnyricinclus albiventris Reichenbach, Handb. Ornith. I. 306. Tf. 562. Fig. 
4078. 79. 
Cinnyris albiventris Gray, Handl. Birds I. 107. 
amboinensis Gray, Genera Birds I. 98. = Certhia amboinensis Gmelin. — Amboina. 
amethystina Jardine, Nectarin. 195. Tb. 13. = Cinnyris amethystina Cuv. 
Anderssoni Strickland, Contrib. Ornith. 1852. 153. [Damara. Natal. 
Cinnyricincle Andersons Reichenbach, Handb. Ornith. I. 307. 
Cinnyris tanatala Smith, SAfr. Journ. 
Cinnyris Anderssoni Gray, Handl. Birds I. 106. 
angladiana Gray, Genera Birds I. 98. — Schlegel et Pollen, Rech. Faune 
Madag. 69. [Madagascar. 
Certhia madag as car ien sis viridis Brisson, Ornith. III. 641. Tb. 33. Fig. 4. 5. 
Buffon, PI. enlum. 575. Fig. 2. 3. 
Angaladiana Vieillot, Ois. dor. Tb. 2. 3. 
Certhia angladiana Shaw, gener. Zool VIII. 194. Tb. 27. 
Cinnyris madag ascariensis Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe Tb. 5. Fig. 3. 
Nectarinia madagascariensis Jardine, Nectarin. 276. 
Cinnyris angladiana Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 407. 
Angaladiana madagascariensis Reichenbach, Handb. Ornith. I. 285. Tf. 573. 
Fig. 3902—4. 
